One of my favorite things about Fayetteville is its vibrant downtown, filled with restaurants, cute places to shop and so much more.
In this June’s “The Downtown Issue,” we explore downtown Fayetteville from a bird’s-eye view, celebrating its continued vitality with new businesses.
Floral Oasis, a new flower shop on Hay Street, is the first one highlighted in this magazine. With its turquoise exterior, the shop that bloomed in November 2024 is hard to miss. Savannah Nelson, Floral Oasis’ owner, reflects on her first six months in business and her hopes for the future.
Downtown Fayetteville is renewing its heartbeat, striving to get the commercial energy back from when it moved to Cross Creek Mall in the 1970s. Despite businesses coming and going, entrepreneurs have hope and see opportunities downtown.
Cape Fear Valley Health went from having 34 clinics in its network in 2020 to now having 93. The sponsored feature starting on page 30 examines the medical group’s 58% expansion and how it has attracted new physicians and specialties.
Fayetteville PRIDE is hosting its 2025 Pride Festival in an inside venue for the first time. And the festival will have new offerings this year, including a kids’ area with youth activities and a poetry reading, as well as alcohol beverage sales and comprehensive security.
Our columnists explore summer and downtown: the first looks back on the past 25 years and rejoices in downtown Fayetteville’s rebirth. Our next shares how a spreadsheet saved her family’s summer vacation. Another highlights — in English and Spanish — Cumberland County’s Juneteenth celebrations, including one in downtown Fayetteville at Festival Park. The last shares her six book recommendations about the lifeblood of downtowns everywhere: bookstores.
There are so many events this June, turn to our To-Do List to fill your calendar.
Were you at Kansas City Chiefs cornerback and Fayetteville native Josh Williams’ Community Day Event? If so, we may have spotted you. Flip to page 46 to find out.
And did you know you could get CityView Magazine mailed directly to you for just $1 a month? Now you do. Sign up for a year’s subscription for only $12 here.
This summer, we hope you can stroll down the brick sidewalks, popping into the new shops that line the streets. Maybe even sit down for a meal at a restaurant patio with a CityView Magazine in hand.
Thank you for reading!
Read CityView Magazine’s “The Downtown Issue” June 2025 e-edition here.
Valeria Cloës is the lead copy editor and magazine editor for CityView Media. She is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill and its Hussman School of Journalism and Media, and has worked across daily and weekly news publications, like the Daily Tar Heel and the Chatham News + Record (under Bill Horner III), and magazines, like Coulture Magazine and Triangle Media Partners’ Chapel Hill, Durham and Chatham Magazine, and Heart of NC Weddings. She is trilingual, speaking fluent Spanish, French and English, and has lived in Argentina, France and multiple cities across the United States. Valeria loves baking, listening to music and traveling.
